Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2012

Friday, March 2 - Thursday, March 8, 2012

Rendez-Vous with French Cinema returns to IFC Center, celebrating its 7th year downtown with a showcase of the best in French filmmaking. Co-presented by Unifrance Films and the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

Additional screenings take place at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and BAM, visit rendezvouswithfrenchcinema.com for more information.

Friday, March 2, 2012
A woman is brutally murdered in front of an apartment building, but all of the residents claim to have seen and heard nothing in this taut, haunting thriller from RAPT director Lucas Belvaux. Inspired...
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Friday, March 2, 2012Star Vincent Lindon in person! France’s most unpredictable filmmaker, the wonderful Alain Cavalier (Le combat dans l’île, Thérèse) teams up with an actor in every way his...
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Friday, July 3 - Thursday, July 16, 2015Shows starting before 5:00pm are in English; shows starting after 5:00pm are in French with English subtitles.
Under a baobab tree, an old man tells a story to the children around him:...
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Saturday, March 3, 2012
A tall, middle-aged woman rushes through her chambermaid duties, confronts her manager about more hours, and then goes off to a diner for coffee and smokes. After that, it’s on to her cramped car, which...
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Saturday, March 3, 2012
A solid return to the gangster genre—in the French style, of course. Momon (Gérard Lanvin) was head of one of the most notorious crime syndicates (known as Les Lyonnais), until the gang was pretty much...
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Saturday, March 3, 2012SOLD OUT! Director in person! Direct from its World Premiere as Opening Night at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, the new film from director Benoît Jacquot (A Single Girl, Deep...more...

Sunday, March 4, 2012SOLD OUT! Directors and star François Cluzet in person! A phenomenon in France, where it shattered box-office records to become the second most successful film of all time, The Intouchables...
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Sunday, March 4, 2012Director and star Tahar Rahim in person! During the German Occupation of France, an Algerian black marketeer (A PROPHET star Tahar Rahim) is coerced into spying on the denizens of the...
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Sunday, March 4, 2012
France at the end of 1943. Signs are appearing that the German military offensive is starting to crack, and the Resistance begins to step up its activities. While working as a hospital nurse, nun Sister...
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Monday, March 5, 2012Director Mathieu Amalric in person! Part of an ongoing project sponsored by La Comédie-Française—in which filmmakers are given 12 days to adapt a classic French play using actors from...
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Monday, March 5, 2012
Off partying one night, a group of students interrupt their revels to become involved in a protest against the clearing if some squats. The march explodes into a full-scale confrontation with the police;...
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012
One of France’s finest young actors, Jalil Lespert can now, on the strength of his second film as director, be seen as one of its most promising filmmakers as well. Based on the best-seller by Oliver...
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012Star Jean-Pierre Daroussin in person! One of contemporary cinema’s most assiduous chroniclers of the politics of daily life, Robert Guédiguian (Marius and Jeanette, The Town is...more...

Tuesday, March 6, 2012
With a tour-de-force lead performance by Roschdy Zem, PARIS BY NIGHT is a searing voyage into the depths of some of the City of Light’s darkest corners. Police commander Simon Weiss (Zem), head of...
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Wednesday, March 7, 2012Director in person! Louis Mandrin was a notorious, Robin Hood-like bandit in the years before the French Revolution; eventually, he was captured and executed, but his legend lived on in...
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Thursday, March 8, 2012Filmmakers in person! The Cinema Empire, a slightly run-down repertory house in a provincial town offers daily screenings of Jean Renoir’s French Can Can to a small but loyal...
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Thursday, March 8, 2012Star Jean-Pierre Darroussin in person! Daniel Auteuil, who shot to international fame for his work in the Claude Berri adaptations of Marcel Pagnol’s Jean de Florette and Manon...more...

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